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Title: My Buy of the Week Post by: cormy on April 14, 2008, 01:28:33 pm Local purchase (Philly). Took some work but the price was right. Did some research, this was the predecessor to the modern day AAA Club.
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: sodaworks on April 14, 2008, 06:00:34 pm Nice find!!
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: aspbear on April 14, 2008, 07:02:52 pm Great Sign. Is it Porcelain
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: Eric on April 14, 2008, 08:29:55 pm Sweet score!... if that's porclein... check out oldgas.com they could tell you how to clean it that rust stain or a lot of it should come right off!....
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: collecture on April 14, 2008, 11:11:10 pm Sweet score!... if that's porclein... check out oldgas.com they could tell you how to clean it that rust stain or a lot of it should come right off!.... Looks like he has already cleaned it upor is that a file photo? Nice job if you did! Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: 90grad on April 15, 2008, 05:08:35 am Very, very nice. I like the colors!
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: BrianB on April 15, 2008, 05:22:08 am Wow! That's a great sign. How did you come about it?
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: RC kid on April 15, 2008, 06:43:01 am I love the old gas signs. Your automobile club sign is both unique and rare. I would hold on to that if I were you.
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: cormy on April 15, 2008, 08:23:35 am The first pic is the sign after alot of scrubbing, the second is the original. The sign is porcelain and had some deep rust stains, some remain but hard to see in pic. I also applied a coat of Feed-n-Wax.
The woman I bought this off of said she found it in a vacant lot some 30 years ago. Probably an old site of a service station that was torn down. I really like it and plan on keeping. :smile: Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: Jim on April 15, 2008, 01:37:14 pm Nice purchase ! ! !
Do you know approx. date of manufacture...? Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: Pat Pixley on April 15, 2008, 03:31:24 pm Great score, and it a gret keeper to boot :tounge:
Title: Re: My Buy of the Week Post by: aspbear on April 15, 2008, 05:01:32 pm Great Porcelain sign. If that second picture is the same side as the other and you got it that clean, I think I would leave it alone because it looks great. I think sometimes we try to make this stuff to clean and take away some of the history.
Great Keeper...Congratulations. |